Two research papers on floating wind turbines, prepared in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) have been recently published online.
“Vertical wake deflection for floating wind turbines by differential ballast control” presents a feasibility analysis of vertical wake steering for floating turbines by differential ballast control. The concept is based on the idea of pitching the floater with respect to the water surface, thereby achieving a desired tilt of the turbine rotor disk. The pitch attitude is controlled by moving water ballast among the columns of the floater.
wes.copernicus.org/articles/7/1641/2022/wes-7-1641-2022.pdf
“Vertical wake deflection for floating wind turbines by differential ballast control” presents a feasibility analysis of vertical wake steering for floating turbines by differential ballast control. The concept is based on the idea of pitching the floater with respect to the water surface, thereby achieving a desired tilt of the turbine rotor disk. The pitch attitude is controlled by moving water ballast among the columns of the floater.
wes.copernicus.org/articles/7/1641/2022/wes-7-1641-2022.pdf
| wes-7-1641-2022.pdf |
“Coupled Dynamic Response of an Offshore Multi-Purpose Floating Structure Suitable for Wind and Wave Energy Exploitation” presents the coupled analysis performed to design a TLP multi-purpose floater supporting a 10MW wind turbine and three oscillation water column (OWC) devices to extract power from the waves.
doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.920151
doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.920151
| wes-2022-32.pdf |
